Jan 31, 2017, 03:22 AM
I feel like we need a sub-forum just for Trump... I've bolded the bits for any TL:DR
Warning comes from the former head of the US President's transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency
[font=Indy Serif]A former climate change adviser to Donald Trump has said the US President will pull America out of the landmark Paris agreement and an executive order on the issue could come within “days”.
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Myron Ebell, who took charge of Mr Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team, said the President was determined to undo policies pushed by Barack Obama to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.
He said the US would "clearly change its course on climate policy" under the new administration and claimed Mr Trump was "pretty clear that the problem or the crisis has been overblown and overstated".
“I expect Donald Trump to be very assiduous in keeping his promises, despite all of the flack he is going to get from his opponents,” he told a briefing in London.
“He could do it by executive order tomorrow, or he could wait and do it as part of a larger package. There are multiple ways and I have no idea of the timing.”
Mr Ebell, a long-standing climate sceptic, was employed by the Trump team last September to review the EPA and worked for the Republican billionaire until his inauguration on 20 January.
Mr Trump, who has previously called climate change a hoax invented by the Chinese, promised a raft of policies during his campaign including to undo Obama’s climate action plan and defund UN climate change work.
The Paris agreement, successor to the Kyoto Protocols, aims to "stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system".
In November, two weeks after his election victory, Mr Trump said he had an "open mind" on the climate deal, which was drafted at the end of 2015 and signed on the 22 April 2016.
[font=Indy Serif]The agreement has 194 signatories, including the US.[/font]
[font=Indy Serif]Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...53676.html[/font]
Well fuckety-fuck. As someone who's kind of, y'know, bothered (I guess you could even say I'm triggered) by Climate Change, this is not good. The whole reason the Kyoto Protocol didn't work was because the two largest emitters of CO2, China and the USA, didn't sign it.
As a result CO2 levels in the atmosphere have increased exponentially (of course this hasn't been helped by the deforestation going on elsewhere).
Yes, the climate has been changing since the dawn of time. But on average, the years are getting hotter - hotter than the previous hottest - and 5.5 GtC are added to the atmosphere each year, because it can't be absorbed nearly as fast as it's being emitted.
We need to look forward to more sustainable ways of making energy so that we can give the atmosphere a 'break', so to speak. If entire nations can commit to renewable energy then maybe something will happen, but there's no point in all the little people pushing forward 1 step if the big one pushes it back by 2.
I'm all for Trump calling for 'America first', but perhaps he's forgotten that there's only one Earth; one climate.
Warning comes from the former head of the US President's transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency
[font=Indy Serif]A former climate change adviser to Donald Trump has said the US President will pull America out of the landmark Paris agreement and an executive order on the issue could come within “days”.
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Myron Ebell, who took charge of Mr Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team, said the President was determined to undo policies pushed by Barack Obama to restrict greenhouse gas emissions.
He said the US would "clearly change its course on climate policy" under the new administration and claimed Mr Trump was "pretty clear that the problem or the crisis has been overblown and overstated".
“I expect Donald Trump to be very assiduous in keeping his promises, despite all of the flack he is going to get from his opponents,” he told a briefing in London.
“He could do it by executive order tomorrow, or he could wait and do it as part of a larger package. There are multiple ways and I have no idea of the timing.”
Mr Ebell, a long-standing climate sceptic, was employed by the Trump team last September to review the EPA and worked for the Republican billionaire until his inauguration on 20 January.
Mr Trump, who has previously called climate change a hoax invented by the Chinese, promised a raft of policies during his campaign including to undo Obama’s climate action plan and defund UN climate change work.
The Paris agreement, successor to the Kyoto Protocols, aims to "stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system".
In November, two weeks after his election victory, Mr Trump said he had an "open mind" on the climate deal, which was drafted at the end of 2015 and signed on the 22 April 2016.
[font=Indy Serif]The agreement has 194 signatories, including the US.[/font]
[font=Indy Serif]Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...53676.html[/font]
Well fuckety-fuck. As someone who's kind of, y'know, bothered (I guess you could even say I'm triggered) by Climate Change, this is not good. The whole reason the Kyoto Protocol didn't work was because the two largest emitters of CO2, China and the USA, didn't sign it.
As a result CO2 levels in the atmosphere have increased exponentially (of course this hasn't been helped by the deforestation going on elsewhere).
Yes, the climate has been changing since the dawn of time. But on average, the years are getting hotter - hotter than the previous hottest - and 5.5 GtC are added to the atmosphere each year, because it can't be absorbed nearly as fast as it's being emitted.
We need to look forward to more sustainable ways of making energy so that we can give the atmosphere a 'break', so to speak. If entire nations can commit to renewable energy then maybe something will happen, but there's no point in all the little people pushing forward 1 step if the big one pushes it back by 2.
I'm all for Trump calling for 'America first', but perhaps he's forgotten that there's only one Earth; one climate.
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